Re: OSTree and OCI images

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On fre, 2016-11-18 at 19:50 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016, at 09:16 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Yesterday I landed support in flatpak to support exporting and
> > importing flatpak apps to an OCI image spec[1] repository on disk.
> > It turns out that this code is quite unspecific to flatpak, and
> > could
> > really be useful for any kind of ostree repo.
>
> Random side note:
>
> https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/443#issuecomment-253909097
>
> semi-blocks doing this in practice now (a lot of the images I'd care
> about
> are built in centos), but we can obviously design things under the
> assumption
> it's fixed at some point.

Ugh, thats pretty shitty. Although its not really an issue for flatpak,
as we strip all xattrs in our images. Still, for generic support we
need this fixed.

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